Word: brazen
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...atti tude," he roared, "can drink the sea. And if the Mediterranean is not big enough, we will give him the Red Sea as well." Nasser's salty slur -the Arabic equivalent of "jump in the lake" -was aimed at U.S. Ambassador Lucius D. Battle, who had been brazen enough to criti cize Nasser for his recent anti-American posture. Shortly after the U.S. Belgian rescue operation in the Congo, Egyptian mobs burned the $350.000 John F. Kennedy Library in Cairo: last week a private plane carrying two U.S. oil-company employees was shot down near Alexandria by Egyptian...
...match his own. They told him where the bodies were buried, and he repaid their trust by miscasting them in solid-citizen roles. Assigned by Hearst to an anti-rackets crusade in 1933, Runyon led off with the charge that the Administration of President Harding was "the most brazen display of racketeering in our times." His story went on to tick off other notable racketeers-"after the bankers come the Wall Streeters"-before arriving at Al Capone, who was charitably described as "a small-timer." Biographer Hoyt finds it strange that Runyon's dark side went so unrecognized, since...
...else fades into the anonymity of the city and is never caught. But within a day of Jean-Luc Taron's murder, the case took a bizarre turn, and before the week was out Paris had been half-hypnotized with horror. For Jean-Luc's killer was a brazen publicity seeker, who taunted the cops and the newspapers with a barrage of telephone calls, special-delivery letters and threats of another child murder unless he was immediately paid $100,000 in advance ransom...
Actually, there had been two watersheds-the Civil War being the first. It was after the Civil War that industrial money-"brazen new money," as Edith Newbold Jones Wharton called it -began to change the face of New York. Wharton was the first American novelist to use the breakup of preindustrial American society as the stuff of fiction-Sinclair Lewis, in recognition of the fact, dedicated Babbitt to her-but she was in some ways the last to understand it. Her best pre-World War I novels (The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country) were groping toward...
There has been little apparent change on Beacon Hill since the indictments. Legislator and lobbyist are reportedly more circumspect, but the old brazen spirit still shows through, as the legislators passed a bill to reimburse themselves for legal fees incurred in their defense against indictments. The only hitch is that they must beat the rap to qualify. But even then, there is no clear reason why they alone, of all criminal defendants in the Commonwealth, are entitled to have their lawyers paid by the public. They, and the electorate, would do well to recall Article VII of the first part...